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23 March 2017.
Photo by Donna Robertson.
File Reference: 2017-03-23-IMG_9061
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries
These creative kids sent out an old library book to each of their wedding guests with a cute little bookmark... (excuse my lack of cropping btw). We don't ordinarily take these sorts of projects on... but we love to do them every now and then!
I went to Ikea today to buy yet another Billy bookcase. After the initial reorganization, I thought I would take a photo and share this with you all. This is only a part of our library (1/3? 1/4?), but I thought it would be interesting to show you what my academic books are, grouped by subject. This doesn't include most of my history books (my undergrad major) or theology (another interest) or the very many fiction and nonfiction books we have scattered around the house.
Peeking through a side gate, a view of the Multnomah County Library (also called the Central Library) which opened in 1913, and was one of the first libraries in the United States to feature an open-plan.
The Utrecht University is the largest university in the Netherlands. The library building at the campus is a very modern, large and beautiful building. There are a lot of rooms for studying, reading, relaxing etc.
Detail of the front of the building.
The Council of the Library Foundation Luncheon with Author Abraham Verghese on May 4, 2023, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Molly O’Keeffe/Capture Imaging)
The famous library of Celsus in the ancient city of Ephesus, capital of Asia minor in Roman times, and now located in Turkey.
The library was built by Celsus’ son, Gaius in honor of his father, the former governor of Asia minor in AD 115 and it was designed to hold 12,000 scrolls. The library became a center of learning for 145 years until it was burned and destroyed by the invading Goths in 262 AD.
Ironically, this 'center of learning' was opposite a 'center for prostitution', the brothel, on the other side of the street, an advert for which can be seen here
View of the library at Trinity College (now Duke University), Durham, N.C.
Digital Collection:
North Carolina Postcards
Date:
1912
Location:
Durham (N.C.); Durham County (N.C.);
Collection in Repository
North Carolina Postcard Collection (P052), North Carolina Collection Photographic
Archives, Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Library in the main building of the University of Debrecen.
Taken with my homemade 6x12 anamorphic pinhole camera.
Film: Kodak Ektar 100 (120 roll)
Exposure time: 2 min.
This is the manuscript room at the British Library. A hasty and discreet snap taken with my mobile phone.
I stumbled upon the vacant former public library on my first-ever Waukegan visit and posted it long ago on here, but here's an updated photo with a few signs and decorations added to the still-vacant building. I hope it can be reused!
Update: if I was going to guess a recent Waukegan photo to go into Explore I'd guess this one, not the Silveys tile. Huh.
Bishan Library is next t a bus and train interchange and a shopping centre. There are lots of people walking around. The children's area is in the basement, and the young adult area on the top floor. Like other Singapore public libraries visited, it had an excellent comic collection.
John Dobson Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England.
John Dobson Street is a 1960s through route, parallel with the main north-south London to Edinburgh road in Northumberland Street. That shopping area was a battle ground between pedestrians and traffic. This new road was the solution.
Central Library was built at the same time as the new road, in the Brutalist style so popular in the early 1960s. It replaced an earlier 19th century building, adjacent to the still extant Laing Art Gallery. The library, designed by Sir Basil Spence, was part of an elevated pedestrian plaza serving the high rise Bewick Court central housing block and shopping precinct.
Wind the clock on by forty-five years and the powers that be decided that all change was in order. The new library building, designed by Ryder Architecture, was to bring services into the twenty-first century. Here we can see the scene as the old/new library building fell to the wrecker's balls.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of the United States and Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations, Washington is an important world political capital. The city is also one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million tourists annually.
The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress, and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. The City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District.
Washington had an estimated population of 702,455 as of July 2018, making it the 20th most populous city in the United States. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area, the country's sixth largest, had a 2017 estimated population of 6.2 million residents.
All three branches of the U.S. federal government are centered in the District: Congress (legislative), president (executive), and the U.S. Supreme Court (judicial). Washington is home to many national monuments, and museums, primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 177 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of many international organizations, trade unions, non-profit, lobbying groups, and professional associations, including the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization of American States, AARP, the National Geographic Society, the Human Rights Campaign, the International Finance Corporation, and the American Red Cross.
A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973. However, Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D.C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, but the District has no representation in the Senate. The District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. The Library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; it also maintains the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia. The Library's functions are overseen by the Librarian of Congress, and its buildings are maintained by the Architect of the Capitol. The Encyclopedia Britannica describes the Library of Congress as the largest library in the world, and the library describes itself as such. Its "collections are universal, not limited by subject, format, or national boundary, and include research materials from all parts of the world and in more than 450 languages."
The Library of Congress moved to Washington in 1800 after sitting for 11 years in the temporary national capitals in New York City and Philadelphia. The small Congressional Library was housed in the United States Capitol for most of the 19th century until the early 1890s. Most of the original collection had been destroyed by the British in 1814 during the War of 1812, and the library sought to restore its collection in 1815. They bought Thomas Jefferson's entire personal collection of 6,487 books. After a period of slow growth, another fire struck the Library in its Capitol chambers in 1851, again destroying a large amount of the collection, including many of Jefferson's books. After the American Civil War, the Library of Congress grew rapidly in both size and importance, which sparked a campaign to purchase replacement copies for volumes that had been burned. The Library received the right of transference of all copyrighted works to deposit two copies of books, maps, illustrations, and diagrams printed in the United States. It also began to build its collections, and its development culminated between 1888 and 1894 with the construction of a separate, extensive library building across the street from the Capitol.
The Library's primary mission is to research inquiries made by members of Congress, carried out through the Congressional Research Service. The Library is open to the public, although only high-ranking government officials and Library employees may check out books and materials.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_Building
The oldest of the four United States Library of Congress buildings, the Thomas Jefferson Building was built between 1890 and 1897. It was originally known as the Library of Congress Building and is located on First Street SE, between Independence Avenue and East Capitol Street in Washington, D.C. The Beaux-Arts style building is known for its classicizing facade and elaborately decorated interior. Its design and construction has a tortuous history; the building's main architect was Paul J. Pelz, initially in partnership with John L. Smithmeyer, and succeeded by Edward Pearce Casey during the last few years of construction. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
In honor of National Library Week, which ends today, April 25th. The plaque says the old library was built in 1902 and donated by Andrew Carnegie.
Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.,
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Library of Birmingham Opened by Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl shot by the Taliban. on the 3rd Sep 2013 ... The £189m Library of Birmingham, which houses one million books and is the largest in Europe .it was designed by Francine Houben
Built for BrickPirate contest Duel of Pirates here
The contest features the use of mystery part : Reddish Brown Barb Large Flexible (Claw, Horn) in all creations.
The Lorette Wilmot Library opened in 1957, and its second-floor stacks are surely well known to any serious Nazareth scholar. But how many students have followed the stacks all the way to the south end, where an elderly restroom waits behind an unmarked door?
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